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When I got back I found myself being very emotional about the time spent in Rwanda in a way that I hadn't been able to or allowed myself to be when we were there. ”
I have the people behind me and the people are my strength. ”
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while. ”
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. ”
As a student, I was more gifted in history and geography. Things like arithmetic were not my strength. ”
Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings. ”
Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust. ”
We must restore the emotional relationship that people have to the idea of America, that no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, that you have access to the same opportunities that somebody who is born in privilege. ”
People think SEALs are cold-blooded, heartless, wound-up, brainwashed killers. They imagine you can just point a SEAL in a direction and say, 'Go kill.' The truth is you're talking about a bunch of kind-hearted, jovial guys. The only thing that separates them is mental toughness. ”
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. ”